Shawnee Missions is an intentional way for us to think of creative ways to live into God's mission right here in the Kansas City area.  Mission isn't just something we support or send other people to do.  Mission is part of our DNA as the body of Christ.

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Faith Promise is our annual focus to help us see how we can make a missional investment in others- both globally and locally.  Each year in October we will make our Faith Promise pledges for the next 12 months.  These pledges will be the money that- as God enables us- we commit to give to missions.  All Faith Promise monies go to support missions beyond our local church budget.

Monies Pledged to Missions, 2009-2010: $95,145

"For I testify that they gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability. Entirely on their own, they urgently pleaded with us for the privilege of sharing in this service of the saints. And they did not do as we expected, but they gave themselves first, to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will." 2 Corinthians 8:3-4, NIV

Every year Shawnee Church sends a group of volunteers, or Work & Witness teams, to another country for hands on participation in missions. We have sent teams to the Amazon, Argentina, Caribbean, Russia, Guatemala and Oklahoma City.

This summer we have a group traveling to Switzerland.  They will be serving and ministering at European Nazarene College.

The LINKS (Loving Interested Nazarenes Knowing and Sharing) program of the Church of the Nazarene is a network of personal connections between missionaries and Nazarenes around the world. This gives each church an opportunity to become personally acquainted with a specific missionary family and their field of service. Churches can send packages, cash gifts, cards, and other remembrances to their LINKS missionaries.

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There are so many children world wide who need help with food, housing and education. Through our Nazarene Compassionate Ministries program, we offer individuals, families and Sunday School classes the opportunity to care for disadvantaged children. All sponsors have direct contact with their child on a regular basis through cards and letters.

World Mission Broadcast reaches millions around the world for Christ via broadcast media, especially radio. The WMB offering, received in June each year, provides funding for program production, airtime, and follow-up materials. Holiness programming, delivered by radio, television and the Internet, reaches around the world with the message of Jesus and his redeeming love and helps to disciple those who respond.

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The Alabaster offering is based on the story of the woman bathing Jesus' feet with perfume from a carved alabaster container. Building on that Biblical story, Nazarenes save their change in their "alabaster box" and to give that money to world missions (in sort of the same way that the woman gave her bottle of perfume to Jesus).

The combined participation by thousands of people in these September and February offerings helps to build buildings for world evangelism.

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In 1984, the Church of the Nazarene General Board instituted Nazarene Compassionate Ministries to meet the physical, emotional, relational intellectual, and spiritual needs of the world.

The Nazarene Compassionate Ministries offers encouragement worldwide through prayer support, information, Crisis Care Kits, and hands-on opportunities.

The first Sunday in December is Compassion Sunday in the Church of the Nazarene.

Though there are several insurance companies that offer worldwide coverage under their plans; The Church of the Nazarene has chosen to continue coverage via a self-funded plan for economic reasons. Those expenses total approximately $2.9 million each year.

Contact Leah Wesley to find out how you can help in this important ministry.